Watching the English - Softcover

Kate Fox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340834455 ISBN 13: 9780340834459

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In Watching the English, social anthropologist Kate Fox dissects and explains the quirks and habits of the English people, from the most famous national traits to the most bizarre reflex reactions. Drawing on over a decade of close observation, interviews, surveys and her own painfully embarrassing field-experiments, she reveals the hidden rules that govern our behaviour -- rules we obey without thinking -- and what these tell us about our national character.

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford, where she has worked on a number of projects with Desmond Morris and Peter North. Her work has included research, publications and broadcasts on many aspects of human behaviour including social aspects of drinking, flirting, body image, pub behaviour, gossip and violence. She is also a respected international consultant on the prevention and management of violence. She is frequently in the media as a commentator on numerous aspects of social anthropology.

Review:

In an insightful and engrossing book, Fox explains the puzzling behavior of her fellow Englishmen in an informal way that puts other social anthropologists to shame. While she uses some academic lingo, Watching the English is far from being a dry read or a clinical observation of a certain group of people... Despite being more than 400 pages long, Watching the English reads easily, but is still jam-packed with information and tidbits about the English, and non-English readers are bound to at least once exclaim, 'What?! The English really do that?' (Camille Tuutti-Winkler, Examiner.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0340834455
• ISBN 13: 9780340834459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432